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My grandpa used to say (paraphrasing), in my 80+ years on this earth, I've never seen the skeleton of a cat next to a full bowl of food.
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No, wait, I've got it wrong. He'd never seen the skeleton of a cat stuck in a tree.
Who knows. He's probably said both. It's definitely the sort of thing he believed in. He wasn't wrong.
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Is the current food a land based meat (cow), fowl (chicken, ducks, etc.) or seafood? Select foods from those same categories for the best results.
Other things to look for is does your cat like pate (paste) or chunked up food.
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Ocean fish. Have tried giving salmon, mackarel, etc., but none of them seem acceptable.
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Tried lobster or caviar ?
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Don't get such flavours in India.
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Amarnath S wrote: Note: In our house, we are vegetarians, and the only meaty stuff in our house is cat-food.
You know what they say about playing the "spot-the-vegetarian" game: Don't bother, because they won't miss any opportunity to point it out themselves.
I try to reject stereotypes, but I'm almost always proven wrong. In spite of myself.
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dandy72 wrote: because they won't miss any opportunity to point it out themselves.
I've noticed that as well, we'll be talking about something unrelated to food or health, but at some point they will bring up the fact that they are vegetarian. I then feel obligated to shift the discussion to juicy, medium rare porterhouse steaks or bacon.
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Nice. Personally I always say the cuter the animal, the tastier it is. It's amazing how some people can't handle that, or just take the comment for what it is.
The big movement right now is to get people off of meat, and eating bugs ("it's all the same proteins, and it's good for you!"). So you're going to deprive yourself to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions linked to farming, but you're going to keep feeding your pets what you're avoiding yourself. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
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A truly tasty animal will never go extinct.
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There's wisdom in that quote. 
As long as vegetarians don't take over. Then they're in trouble.
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I'm a vegetarian by proxy. I only eat animals that eat vegetables!
Hmm, is grass classed as a vegetable?
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� Forogar � wrote: is grass classed as a vegetable?
I would say it is.
Panda burgers anyone? 
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I think it's a cry for help, a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Especially in homes where ONE person decides WE are going to be vegetarians.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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My dogs like to eat the cat's food, and my cats like to eat the dog's food.
No issues here, thank goodness.
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I'm trying to avoid it altogether feeding her different kind of food each time, never using the same flavor and possibly brand twice in a row, both for wet food and for kibbles. So far it's working, and it becomes easy to discover what she absolutely doesn't like.
She's becoming tired of a particular brand she used to love but I discovered that mixing it with liquid snacks or vitaminic paste makes her very willing to eat it.
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It's been a long time since I had one of the charming beasts of my own. What I do recall, vividly, is their speaking to me about their food when they didn't like it. Actually, they'd turn around and emulate burring his/her 'droppings' in dirt (or litter box if that's how you roll).
Many years later, we had a pet Turtle (for 20 years). He had a weird fussiness about him. Generally, insisted upon life food (not just meat and we've been vegetarians since almost always). Even that wasn't always good enough. Unlike a cat, however, a reptile can refuse to eat (or even move on its own) for days and days. A battle of will when he was having his little hissy-fit (hissing, chirping, and near-purring are the few sounds he could make). I used to reminisces how we could wait our cat out and win . . .
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Two solutions:
1) Buy the cat a mouse or raise mice as food, or
2) Toss the cat in the grinder, buy a real pet - like a dog - and feed the real pet the ground cat.
Careful, though. Option 2 might require you to acquire more cats, and who wants that? 
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Today in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his newly invented telephone to none other than Queen Victoria.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Was she amused?
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They became a twisted pair 
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Don't know. Slightly before my time. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Before your time?
Surely you jest !
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I remember something that has even older roots: A technology for depositing lines of pigment onto thin sheets of a cellulose based material, using a metal tip mounted on a handle containing a pigment container. The lines were grouped together into standard shapes, and these shapes could be combined side by side, as a representation of the message.
Exchanging thoughts and opinions through such sequences of pigment patters was quite common. In fact, a generation or two ago, almost everyone in the Western world knew how to deposit such pattern on cellulose fibers, and to decode similar postings from others. In its days, this kind of social media was very widespread, one of the most important communication technologies.
The interesting side of these media is that they were non-volatile, so the message would be accessible long time after they were communicated - even several hundred years later - without requiring any power or regular refresh cycles. Also, for re-accessing already decoded and interpreted parts of the posting, the rewinding process was very simple; if the desired part of the posting was at the same cellulose fiber sheet, no physical operation was required. The interpretation could be made at any desired speed, and pausing interpretation did not require any specific operations to be performed.
Some aspects of this technology were so valuable that I think they should be considered for modern media. To some degree, they are available, but you cannot, say, tie red ribbon around a pile of FB postings and put in your private, locked chest as a dear memory from the old days. Using a database search function does not have the same romantic touch as untying that red ribbon when you are sitting in front of the fireplace, memorizing the days you were young.
How much is left of your phone conversations, when you dream yourself back to the old days, in front of the fireplace? Nothing.
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Before that came the Fax machine!
No, seriously: Alexander Bain (inventor) - Wikipedia[^] invented the fax in 1843. History does not relate if he sent pron, but most communications inventions seem to involve it ... 
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